... that Confucianism was the root of the China's weakness because Confucianism simply stood for reaction and acceptance, which resulted in the lack of resistance and the willingness to fight among Chinese people. He realized that Confucianism was the giant obstruction for Chinese reform. In his "The Way of Confucius and Modern Life", he illustrated the incompatibilities between Confucianism and modern life through individual independence. He pointed out that, "Confucius lived in a feudal age, the ethics he promoted is the ethics of the feudal age." and it did not match the society that people live in at the time. Chen said in 1915, "The basic task is to import the foundation of western society, that is, the new belief in equality and human rights. We must be thoroughly aware of the incompatibility between Confucianism and new belief, the new society, and the new state" *[1], emphasized that in order to ...

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